Doctors Say More Ovary Transplants Possible New techniques make more ovary transplants possible, may help women fight biological clock By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer,LONDON June 29, 2009 (AP) A new technique to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors […]
by COURTNEY HUTCHISON ABC News Medical Unit ABC News, January 19, 2010 After more than 20 years and nearly $200,000 worth of failed infertility treatments, Monique and Neil Ward of Stafford, England, have finally became the proud parents of twin boys, Britain’s Press Association reports. The Wards’ case is certainly the extreme, but it can […]
by Michelle Rizzo Reuters Health, March 8, 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ovarian transplantation, first done successfully in 2005, is now a “robust procedure,” even after cryopreservation, researchers say. They found good long-term function of fresh and frozen ovarian grafts in women followed for up to 5 years. “This is the largest series of […]
by Catherine Donaldson-Evans AOL Health, October 12, 2010 A 42-year-old woman just gave birth to a baby that came from an embryo frozen 20 years ago, according to a just-published case study. The woman adopted the fertilized egg from a couple who underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) two decades ago and had left-over embryos they […]
by Bonnie Rochman Time, November 3, 2010 After 10 years of marriage ended in divorce and no children, Dr. Julie Lorber knew she had to take extreme measures if she ever hoped to become a mother. So at age 35, Lorber, now 39, elected to remove a portion of her right ovary to have it […]
by Rosemary Paxman BioNews.org.uk, December 6, 2010 A new study has shown that IVF may not be linked to an increased risk of certain cancers among female patients. A team of Swedish researchers concluded that, although cancer or cancer treatment may increase the need for IVF, the risks of cancer post-IVF treatment were low. The […]
by Simon Tomlinson Mail Online Health, March 25, 2012 ‘Women will have so much choice about when to have children’ Scientists can stop menopause with ovary transplants Transplanted ovaries effective for at least seven years British women could soon choose to freeze ovaries Women may soon be able to forgo the menopause after scientists hailed […]
Advisory Board’s Dr. Sherman Silber Shares Infertility Techniques in China Global Thinking – News and Views From the College of Arts & Sciences at Webster UniversityApril 4, 2012 Sherman Silber, M.D., a member of the College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Board and a renowned pioneer in microsurgery and infertility, recently traveled to Guagzhou, China, […]
by Deborah Huso AOL Health, October 29, 2010 When Amy Tucker of Columbia, Ill., gave birth [news video] to a healthy baby boy last May, she made headlines. The 32-year-old cancer survivor was no ordinary new mom. Thirteen years ago, when Tucker was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she knew the cancer treatment would leave her […]
By Catherine Donaldson-EvansAOL Health, March 25, 2010 Men who consume a quart of cola — fewer than three 12-ounce cans or two 20-ounce bottles — or more a day have sperm counts that are about 30 percent lower than those of men who don’t, according to a Danish report published March 25 in the American […]
How to Prevent Another Octomom By Aisha Sultan St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 28, 2009 Up until now, I’ve been pretty glad our government doesn’t dictate who can have a baby or how many babies we’re allowed to have. Then along came Octomom. That’s the media’s moniker for Nadya Suleman, the California single mother who recently […]
Less of a baby boom: After the octuplet baby case By Blythe Bernhard ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, March 11, 2009 Fertility doctors say a proposed law aimed at preventing multiple births wouldn’t change their practices and doesn’t go far enough to help couples struggling to have a baby. In response to the highly publicized case of […]
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